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How to Get Thousands of Audiobooks for FREE (Project Gutenberg)

29 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube-style announcement describing that Project Gutenberg, with support from Microsoft, MIT and AI text-to-speech, now offers about 5,000 AI-narrated public-domain audiobooks for free. The audiobooks are available via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or the Internet Archive; the narration is neural TTS (AI voices), which the speaker notes may harm traditional voice actors.

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Did you ever wish for a massive library of completely free audiobooks? Your wish has been granted. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, Microsoft, MIT and the Power of AI, you can now access 5000 AI narrated audiobooks completely for free. So what's the catch? Well, there is none, except that they use neural text to speech, so the voices are AI generated, but they're surprisingly good. So look, if you have kids, there's bedtime stories, or are you into classics like Mark Twain? They've got you covered too, because they took the books from the public domain and used AI voice generators to narrate them fully. So how do you access this? Just head on over Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or the Internet Archive and access them for completely free under the name Project Gutenberg. The downside? This is quite tough on traditional voice actors, but hey, I guess this is the price of progress.